[18397] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.4.13: gimp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Thu Oct 12 11:31:03 2000
Message-Id: <200010121530.LAA00637@never-never-land.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:30:58 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
System name: never-never-land.mit.edu
Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.4.13
Display type: m
(my display type is "m"? I would have expected something more
informative than that...)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
select a parent directory in the "open file" window. That is,
I'm currently in, say,
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/b/o/boojum/www/Cthulhu/Pix.
Clicking on the directories in the left window (the one
labeled "Directories" works fine to go both up and down the
tree. However, there's a bar above this, which lists the
current directory as well as all its parents. I select the
parent two levels up,
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/b/o/boojum/
and things hang.
What's wrong:
Everything stops responding. the mouse moves the cursor, but
that's it. I'm impatient, so I only waited about a minute
before rebooting.
What should have happened:
It should have changed directory to the appropriate place. I
would not be surprised by this behavior if I had selected /afs
instead, but it's ill-behaved of it to try and get to my
selection by going downward from the top level.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
